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As we saw in:

Demonstration site CDF error correction question

PolyhedronData has changed. I've failed to find any information about how the syntax changed in V11.

Example:

PolyhedronData["SquashedDodecahedron", "Faces"]

V10.4:

GraphicsComplex[...]

V11.1.1:

{{1, 4, 9, 3}, {3, 9, 11, 8}, {3, 8, 2, 1}, {10, 13, 7, 5}, {12, 14, 13, 10}, {5, 6, 12, 10}, {7, 13, 9, 4}, {13, 14, 11, 9}, {14, 12, 8, 11}, {12, 6, 2, 8}, {6, 5, 1, 2}, {5, 7, 4, 1}}

In 11.1 we can get the 'old' faces with:

PolyhedronData["SquashedDodecahedron", "GraphicsComplex"]

But it is not the case with e.g. "Edges" so the transition is not straightforward.

The question: I was able to fix this example but in general I'd like to have an outline of changes and/or quick v11Patch would be nice, in order to don't have to think when transferring older code to v11.

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    $\begingroup$ Makes you wish this was still maintained. $\endgroup$
    – Jason B.
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 15:35
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    $\begingroup$ @JasonB. Maybe this deserves an entry here $\endgroup$
    – Michael E2
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 16:31

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It is documented that the "Edges" property returns the polyhedron edges as vertex index pairs (emphasis mine).

It is also documented that one might use

PolyhedronData["SquashedDodecahedron", "Edges", "GraphicsComplex"]

to get the previous form.

Another useful feature of the documentation page is the "UPDATED (show changes)" button -- try clicking on that and reading the highlighted sections of the page.

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  • $\begingroup$ I know that feature, it is quite common due to the symbolic File wrapper introduction. And this subtle change is stressed out with the same magnitude as backward incompatible change in syntax for quite important function. I don't claim the current syntax is not clear, new documentation looks well. I just think it fails to communicate how severe was the update. That is of course subjective too. $\endgroup$
    – Kuba
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 21:42
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    $\begingroup$ Yes, quite a few functions were modified in 11.0 or later: EntityList[EntityClass["WolframLanguageSymbol", "VersionLastModified" -> GreaterEqualThan[11]]] and I agree it would be nice to have a way to distinguish "simple" extensions from more major changes, especially ones that may introduce an incompatibility with existing code. $\endgroup$
    – ilian
    Commented May 24, 2017 at 21:57

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